The Research Office, including an integral study area, has an open-door policy; and its siting adjacent to the Clive Barker Library in the College’s LRC, and its visual presentation, makes it a welcoming and stimulating environment within which to meet and work. The Special Collections Room nearby, houses the Stanislavski Collection, David Bolland Kathakali Collection, and the Archives of Professor Jean Benedetti, Clive Barker, Noel Greig (playwright), Sue Frumin (playwright), Nick Chelton (lighting designer), TIE Papers from Pam Schweitzer (Director of Age Exchange), TYA-UK, Theatre Centre, Oily Cart Theatre Company and, on extended loan, Routledge’s Theatre Arts Archive comprising material connected to Stanislavski studies in the USA.